Installation Instructions¶

Open Design Engine (ODE) is based on Redmine. The official installation method is to install the Bitnami Redmine Stack, apply some custom configuration to the stack, and then upgrade the installed Redmine instance to the ODE source code. Support for other stacks (or bootstrapped installations) will come with future releases. With luck, one or more of the stack providers will add ODE to their list of supported stacks.

Note, these instructions assume you are running the Ubuntu VM image of the Bitnami Redmine Stack and are running all commands under sudo. They were tested with version 1.1.3 in VMWare Player.

Useful Paths

(bitnami_base) = /opt/bitnami in VM images

Steps to install ODE

Import the Bitnami Redmine Stack into VMWare (the free VMWare Player is supported)

Configure Redmine to run at http://hostname/ instead of http://hostname/redmine

Edit (bitnami_base)/apache2/conf/httpd.conf and comment out the line:
```
DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs" 
```

Edit (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/conf/redmine.conf to match the following (the key areas are the addition of the virtual host section and changing all references of /redmine to /):

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin haha.huhu.com
  ServerName server.our.lan
  ServerAlias server
  ErrorLog "logs/error.log" 
  CustomLog "logs/access.log" combined
 # this not only blocks access to .svn directories, but makes it                
 # appear as though they aren't even there, not just that they are              
 # forbidden                                                                    
 <DirectoryMatch "^/.*/\.svn/">
    ErrorDocument 403 /404.html
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
  </DirectoryMatch>
  # This passes through remote_user to mongrel                                  
  RewriteEngine On
  # Redirect non-static requests to cluster                                     
  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://redminecluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
</VirtualHost>

#ProxyPass / balancer://redminecluster
#ProxyPassReverse / balancer://redminecluster

<Proxy balancer://redminecluster>
  BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001
  BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3002
  # The number of balancer members depends on the number of mongrels running
  # We use only one mongrel on port 3001 by default for the BitNami Cloud Hosting
  # Please remove the others like 3002 above in such a case.
</Proxy>

Edit (bitnami_base)/apps/redmine/config/mongrel_cluster.yml and change references to prefix: /redmine to prefix: /

Restart Redmine by running:

(bitnami_base)/ctlscript stop
(bitnami_base)/ctlscript start